Creating Classroom Contexts for Readers: Linking Children with Books.

Lehr, Susan

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Publication Date: 1990

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Creating Classroom Contexts for Readers: Linking Children with Books.

Lehr, Susan

Reading Horizons, v30 n3 p195-208 Spr 1990

Discusses how teachers can begin to create contexts in which reading excites children and links them effectively with books in a variety of genres. Argues that literature is a vehicle for creating contexts to facilitate intellectual growth and critical thinking. (RS)

Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Elementary Education, Learning Processes, Literature Appreciation, Reading Aloud to Others, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Reading Strategies, Reading Writing Relationship, Teaching Methods, Whole Language Approach

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Language: English

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